The Supreme Court of Appeal held that a public authority may not exercise powers which are not given to it by the express wording of its empowering statute.

The relevant empowering provision in the Medical Schemes Act gives the Registrar the power to decide whether a medical scheme’s proposed name is likely to mislead the

Under the correct set of circumstances a party may treat an administrative act as void and await developments, which must not be ‘equated with contumacious disregard for the law by anarchists and legal delinquents’, according to a judgment of the Namibia High Court

The judgment stayed the implementation and application of the provisions of the